Uber Eats is offering grocery discounts to combat ‘veggie-flation’

Uber is launching a caller discount programme aimed astatine warring against rising nutrient prices.

The institution is launching a caller diagnostic called “Fresh Days,” successful which customers volition person discounts of up to 50 percent connected “local fruits, vegetables, meats, and dairy.” The nonstop time and discount magnitude volition alteration from marketplace to market, but Uber plans connected launching the caller diagnostic successful the US, Canada, the UK, South Africa, France, Japan, Taiwan, and Spain — with much countries to follow.

Grocery customers are experiencing sticker daze crossed the nation, with astir of the terms increases affecting fruits and vegetables. Apple prices are up 9.6 percent year-over-year, according to the latest Consumer Price Index. Overall, caller fruits and vegetables are up 2.3 percent compared to August 2024. This “veggie-flation” comes arsenic farmers and growers look expanding costs of their own, with the USDA estimating that workplace accumulation expenses volition scope $467 cardinal successful 2025, up 2.6 percent from the erstwhile twelvemonth and much than 36 percent higher than successful 2018.

Uber’s Fresh Day caller discount programme volition hopefully instrumentality immoderate of the wound retired of that market order. The institution is offering its steepest discounts to its Uber One subscribers; for example, an Uber One subordinate successful the US could get an exclusive 30 percent disconnected each Tuesday connected prime caller produce, meats, dairy, and eggs.

Uber Eats is besides rolling retired a fig of different updates, including an caller AI-powered replacement proposition instrumentality successful lawsuit the point you ordered isn’t successful stock. Uber Eats couriers tin besides present stock photos with customers portion buying to amended pass erstwhile an point is out-of-stock oregon “low quality.” And Uber is present offering a freshness guarantee, meaning the institution volition regenerate immoderate point that arrives spoiled, damaged, past its date, oregon stale.